• @[email protected]
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    Do they actually send a SWAT team? I just assumed that was the term but they actually just trigger a high priority multi officer response based on what they say.

    • @fuckwit_mcbumcrumble
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      221 year ago

      Have you seen how cops arm themselves? That is just as much force as a swat team.

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        01 year ago

        A swat team is a specially trained unit.

        An uparmored tactical larp response.from.many officers is not that.

      • @[email protected]
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        -111 year ago

        Your comment doesn’t really answer my question. Do they actually send a SWAT team?

        I don’t really care about how they are armed. Is it called swatting because a SWAT team is deployed, or is it because that happened once or sometimes but it’s not always the case?

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          your baby gets flash banged in the face and someone tries to make this useless point

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            What point? I’m honestly trying to find out if it’s only considered swatting if an actual SWAT team is deployed or if that’s become the generic term.

            There’s a term for this, called genericide. Like how Kleenex is used for all facial tissues or Qtips is used for all cotton swabs.

            If all you want to do is find reasons to get offended and be combatant take your bullshit somewhere else.

            I’m so sick of people like you on Lenny eroding actual conversation so you can mud sling and interpret everything in the worst possible light.

            Sometimes a question is just a fucking question jackass!

            Blocked for being the waste of space you are.

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              okay to answer your question it doesn’t matter if it’s swat or not

              Swatting is a criminal harassment act of deceiving an emergency service into sending a police or emergency service response team to another person’s address. [wikipedia]

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      Search for Swatting incidents and see how many people have been terrorized or killed on the basis of nothing but an anonymous phone call.

    • @[email protected]
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      01 year ago

      If you make the stakes high enough in the 911 call, absolutely. You don’t want cops to waste time checking things out if a real hostage situation is playing out of whatever.